hads | Hmm, it seems the GMA500 chipset drivers are dodgy | 00:22 |
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hads | That will be the video card problems you were talking about chilts | 00:24 |
hads | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_500_on_Linux | 00:25 |
ojwb | not so good | 00:28 |
hads | No, I think that puts me off. If it doesn't work out of the box it's probably too much effort. | 00:34 |
ibeardslee | make sure you let them know that is why | 00:39 |
ibeardslee | might not be able to change the way they do things | 00:39 |
ajmitch | poulsbo chipset? | 00:41 |
hads | Yeah | 00:42 |
hads | I will tell them, I imagine they've heard it before. I bet they got stung by it too, they used to provide Ubuntu as an option and I wondered why they stopped, that's probably the reason. | 00:42 |
hads | Man it's annoying finding pre built systems to run Linux. So often something like this comes up and throws a spanner in the works. | 00:43 |
ojwb | wonder if the preinstalled mint works | 00:44 |
ojwb | it'd still be useful for non-video applications, but you're probably paying extra for hardware you aren't using | 00:44 |
hads | Surely it would, though there seem to be many tales of the proprietry bits causing upgrade issues. | 00:45 |
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* thumper is upgrading laptop to natty | 03:41 | |
thumper | about 16 hours remaining to download packages | 03:41 |
thumper | although it ranges from 5 - 16 hours | 03:41 |
thumper | server however won't | 03:41 |
thumper | as it thinks there is a checksum failure on the partner repository | 03:42 |
ibeardslee | ouch | 03:43 |
ojwb | who wants the partner repo though... | 03:52 |
ajmitch | thumper: that seems a bit off | 03:52 |
ajmitch | even on a bad day I wouldn't think it'd take that long to download packages | 03:52 |
ojwb | dear me, it must be close to release day | 03:52 |
ojwb | how time flies | 03:52 |
thumper | beta time | 03:53 |
thumper | well, beta RSN | 03:53 |
snail | we need a bittorrent-like protocol that works well in situations like this | 03:54 |
ojwb | there have been ideas | 03:54 |
ojwb | the tricky part is that bittorrent works well for larger files than the typical package | 03:54 |
snail | bittorrent works really well for huge (>5GB) isolated files rather than collections of middling files | 03:55 |
ojwb | yeah | 03:57 |
ojwb | so you could bittorrent a pack of the essential packages for a new release usefully | 03:57 |
ojwb | though if you pay by data transferred, bittorrent isn't so appealing | 03:58 |
snail | ojwb: oh yes it is | 03:59 |
ojwb | well, it doesn't appeal much to me... | 04:01 |
ojwb | if I ran a mirror I'd feel differently | 04:01 |
snail | bitorrent means would mean we wouldn't have to re-ftp a 1400MB PDF whose transfer time rivaled out network's mean-time-between-failures | 04:01 |
ojwb | for package upgrades I mean | 04:02 |
ojwb | but you can continue transfers for FTP can't you? | 04:02 |
ojwb | or using PASV | 04:02 |
ojwb | oh MTBF, not timeout | 04:03 |
snail | ojwb: yes, what you say holds true for all but the largest of packages | 04:05 |
ajmitch | morning | 19:38 |
ibeardslee | morning | 19:56 |
ibeardslee | karora: still heading up to mix it with the poor people? | 19:56 |
snail | morning | 20:01 |
snail | the poor people? | 20:01 |
ibeardslee | http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/internetnz-slashes-price-of-nethui | 20:04 |
karora | Heh. | 20:04 |
karora | Yeah, I think I shall. | 20:04 |
karora | I should fit right in :-) | 20:04 |
karora | How about you? | 20:04 |
ibeardslee | unlikely | 20:06 |
ajmitch | that's quite a price difference | 20:07 |
ibeardslee | very | 20:08 |
ajmitch | http://uds.ubuntu.com/ <-- what I'd like to go to in may, but would cost just a bit much :) | 20:09 |
ibeardslee | sigh yeah .. must buy lotto ticket | 20:11 |
ajmitch | heh | 20:11 |
ajmitch | ibeardslee: as long as you promise to sponsor a few of us to go to UDS :) | 20:22 |
ibeardslee | hell, I'd take the whole of #ubuntu-nz | 20:25 |
ibeardslee | or even better .. organise one for NZ | 20:26 |
ajmitch | that could still cost quite a lot | 20:26 |
ibeardslee | still be plenty of change from the $27mil | 20:27 |
Atamira | morena | 21:52 |
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